单词 | walsingham |
释义 | Walsinghamn. Walsingham Way n. the Milky Way, supposed formerly to have been used as a guide by pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > galaxy > [noun] > Milky Way wayeOE Watling Streetc1384 galaxya1398 milky circlea1398 Milky Wayc1450 milk way1555 milk-white way1555 white circle1563 milken waya1586 milken race1596 milk circle1601 Via Lactea1615 lacteous circle1646 Milky Way1854 Walsingham Wayc1878 c1878 G. M. Hopkins in Poems (1967) 75 A starlight-wender of ours would say The marvellous Milk was Walsingham Way. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 653 The waggoner's star: Walsingham way: the chariot of David: the annular cinctures of Saturn. 1973 M. J. Petry Herne the Hunter vi. 71 In certain parts of England, and especially in East Anglia, the Milky Way was also known as the Walsingham Way, on account of the hosts of pilgrims who passed along the roads..to the shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham in Norfolk. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1878 |
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